Burt Lancaster Quotes
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Oh I've done bungee jumping. Skydiving, I have motorcycles that I ride. I'm a little bit of an adrenaline junkie in that way.
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I did a lot of stunts, so the harness work isn't foreign to me either.
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I'd love to have William Faulkner, Beethoven and Bach over. I want to find out what makes those guys tick!
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My hands, my feet, I throw my whole body to say all that is within me.
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See, that's the thing: I'm not one of those actors who thinks, 'God, I've got to improvise and make it my own.' No, my first job as an actor is to take what's written and make it work. And then, if they want me to improvise, I'll do that.
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I choose to focus on the positive.
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Even today, I frequently meet scientists who, outside their own narrow discipline, are superstitious.
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I find that people in the food world are amazingly willing to talk about what they are doing, even when those things are quasi-legal or taboo.
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Never above you. Never below you. Always beside you.
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I used to have a very unmediated experience of food but, because of the recipe testing, I've lost that now. I can't switch it off even when I'm on holiday.
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Our program for American GIs can be heard at 1630 hours.
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The Bureau doesn't have any secret files.
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It's the group sound that's important, even when you're playing a solo.
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I describe myself as an environmentalist not because I'm marching in the street with placards but because I like to be in the woods by myself.
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I am always fascinated by India.
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I got the idea that to write books would be the best way to spend a life. I never thought of anything else that seemed like half as much fun, although in my next life I would like to be an architect, too, so I can have an easier time restoring houses.
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I don't expect anything from anybody. When you grow old... Your days are gone; it is part of life.
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I'm just trying to play against ethnicity. I got to play a guy from Louisiana in 'The Pacific' named Merriell Shelton, and now I'm playing Elliot Alderman.
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On game days, I'm pretty boring: I like to rest and watch TV with my legs up so I'm not on my feet too much before the match.
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As long as we are engaged in storytelling that moves the culture forward, it doesn't matter what format it is.
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I don't live for stuff and things, and if I had to live in a cardboard box, I would put curtains on it.
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I have oft-times been besought, by divers gentlemen, to set down on paper what I have beheld through my newly invented microscopia, but I have generally declined.
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Mother beat the hell out of us. She'd have wild outbursts.
